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Jasenovac – 22 April 2025
1. Survivors of Jasenovac camp laying flowers at the memorial
2. The wooden pit gate where the Nazis have been throwing victims (inscription on a plate – a poem “Pit” by Ivan Goran Kovacic)
3. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Slavko Milanovic, survivor of Jasenovac camp, born in 1937, was brought to Jasenovac camp with his mother and sister in 1942, sister was killed in Jasenovac, and he was transferred to different labor camp and survived:
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“We were out in the open sky, barbed wire all around us, that’s where we spent some 25 days. We were eating grass, we grabbed grass and ate it, we ate it all, only dirt remained. The Ustashas (Croatian Nazi collaborators) got up early, somewhere around 8 or 9 o’clock and separated children from their mothers. As my mother saw them coming, we were sitting below and they were coming up from a hill above, she was hiding us under the blankets that we were sleeping on. That happened that day, and every following day. So I stayed with my mother, they didn’t separate us. My sister was more fragile than me, she died right there – in my mothers hands.”
4. Train that Nazi’s used to bring the detainees to the camp
5. Barbed wire on a train window
6. Train carriages
7. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Milinko Cekic, survivor of the camp. Born in 1934, was brought to the camp in 1942, along with 58 members of his wider family:
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“They (Ustasha) forced us to walk towards the train station in Bastaji, and pushed into the cattle wagon’s. They locked us in there, and train moved someplace."
8. Leaves on the surface of the lake
9. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Milinko Cekic, survivor of the camp. Born in 1934, was brought to the camp in 1942, along with 58 members of his wider family
“I don’t remember even being hungry or thirsty, but there was both of those. We used to drink water from that little lake there, usually there were dead bodies floating in that lake.“
10. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Milinko Cekic, survivor of the camp. Born in 1934, was brought to the camp in 1942, along with 58 members of his wider family
"I used to have such nightmares, every night. It was so hard to survive that. I was constantly hunted by some people who don’t look like people, in those dreams. They were more like animals, some scarecrows or something. Yes, that was all consequence of what I have been through (his detention in the camp).”
11. Pan of monument
STORYLINE:
Croatia on Tuesday commemorated the victims of a World War II concentration camp where tens of thousands of people perished in the hands of a pro-Nazi puppet regime at the time.
Top Croatian officials and representatives of the Serb, Jewish, Roma and antifascist organizations attended the ceremonies marking 80 years after hundreds of prisoners attempted a breakthrough on April 22, 1945.
Only 92 people survived the breakthrough attempt out of some 600 men, according to the Jasenovac memorial center data.
Prisoners at the camp, known as Balkan Auschwitz, also included women and children.
Slavko Milanovic, born in 1937, was just a child when he was brought to Jasenovac with his mother, aunt and sister.
Milanovic still remembers how prison guards separated children from their mothers.
“When my mother saw that she covered me and my sister with cloths that we used to sleep on,” Milanovic said. “My sister was fragile, she died right there in my mother’s arms.”
Milanko Cekic lost dozens from his family in Jasenovac.
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